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Location: Dallas | My bridge is lifted on one side should I immediately stop playing and get it repaired - Is the bridge firmly attached or glued |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Glued on most, if not all. Also bolted on some. Loosen the strings and get it fixed. |
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Location: North Texas | If the bridge is lifting, it's not firmly attached. It needs to be reglued, sooner or later. It might not have to be completely removed to be repaired. Have it looked at by a competent person. |
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Location: Dallas | Its a 4861 It looks as if its bolted but one of the ends is coming up |
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Location: North Texas | It should not be bolted. The bridge should be glued. Other than some archtops, and some old timey guitars, bridges are glued on. I've never seen a balladeer bridge that was not glued, but I could be wrong. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Many Ovation bridges are bolted on. Dave |
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Location: North Texas | I did not know that. I do know that I've never seen one. Are you saying that the 4861 has a bolt on bridge? That's what the man has. I think it's a Balladeer. I've had guitars with floating bridges, held in place by string tension like my Gretsch, but not any bolted ones. I'd like to see one, any idea which models have them? Buck |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My Custom Balladeer is bolted on. I assume it's glued, too. It has a couple of finish cracks that come out from the bolts. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | If it has two pearloid dots on the bridge...it's bolted.
If the bridge appears to be lifting, this could mean the soundboard is distended, which could mean the bracing has failed....
Take her to the ER. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'm not sure what models are bolted or not. Quick look around the closet Book Elite, Elite 12, and 1537 and definately bolted. Dave |
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Location: North Texas | After reading Jeffs' post, I noticed that my Matrix has pearl dots on the bridge. It just might be bolted. Next time I change strings I'll check it out. Don't they trust their glues dudes? |
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Location: Connecticut | Just because there are dots doesn't necessarily mean that there are screws under them.Some just have dots, when the change over was being made from bridges with screws to no screws some bridges went out with just dots as a way to use up some bridge stock. There weren't a lot of them done that way but there were some. All bridges are glued down whether there were screws or not.As far as the bridge lift goes, if it's only a small lift on a corner it could stay like that for years, now if it's lifting from the back side of the bridge I would get that taken care of right away. |
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Location: Dallas | Its only lifting on one side but that has to stress the bridge and the guitar top - Im taking it in today -Ill give you a heads up on what they say |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Good Info DaveO,
Thanx. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | bump
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Location: Dallas | They are regluing the bridge - Should be ggod as new in 2 weeks - I guess he is in demand. Should be a good thing I want it done right |
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Location: North Texas | Smart move, Giter done. What's the estimate? |
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Location: Dallas | A bridge reset $50 (Dallas Guitar Repair) Ovation certified. He is also going to set it up for me and give it the once over. I figure its gonna end up between 100 and 150 when its done. The sound was so rich I just hope that this wont affect that. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Campinman
Welcome to the board, and thanks for the information.
That cost would not be excessive to save a good guitar. You might ask the repair person if they can determine what caused he damage. My guess is exposure to temperature and humidity, but that is only a guess. Ovations are generally pretty tough guitars, and don't fail under normal, or near noemal, conditions.
All of us need to know what causes that kind of failure if it can be known.
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Location: Dallas | the original owner was a WI college student - So I can only assume that it was temp and drug related. I plan on taking a little better care of it than he did |
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Location: Dallas | By the way thanks for all the responses. I guess this internet thing does have some usefulness. |
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